Example sentences of "to do so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you make him feel that he should be getting dressed , and he tries to do so before he is ready , in rehabilitation terms , he will certainly increase his spasticity and make himself even less capable of learning the movements . |
| 2 | The overriding concern of the populists , however , was to free the peasantry from poverty and to do so before Russia had irrevocably embarked upon capitalist development in agriculture and industry . |
| 3 | A term is not implied , however , merely because it appears reasonable to do so nor if it is contrary to an express term . |
| 4 | She did n't think that it was her place to do so nor did she want to appear to be a burden to the man she loved . |
| 5 | The wearing of breathing apparatus , although necessary , was known to be risky ; the trapped men were not accustomed to the equipment and anyone who has used it knows how alarming and claustrophobic the experience can be ; the effect can be a compelling desire to rip off the apparatus and if one of the trapped miners was to do so while passing through the gas in Bank mine , death would be almost instantaneous . |
| 6 | Moving on to the question of defenders stopping the try by not standing on the goal-line , Law 27(e) is clear about what the offending team must do : ‘ The opposing team must run without delay ( and continue to do so while the kick is being taken and while the ball is being played by the kicker 's team ) to or behind the line parallel to the goal-lines and 10 metres from the mark , or to their own goal-line if nearer to the mark . |
| 7 | They therefore chose to look after their children during the week , and to allow their husbands to do so while they went to work on Sundays . |
| 8 | Above all , this means taking a strategic view of multimedia and its impact on traditional publishing practice and markets and to do so while there is still time . |
| 9 | But with seven wins from their last eight , the Chargers look set to reach the play-offs for the first time since 1982 — the first to do so after such a poor start . |
| 10 | I realized , however , that to do so after we had been deprived of half our rifles and whatever security the protection of the Government afforded us would be to invite almost certain massacre . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the court will order by mandamus a visitor to exercise his jurisdiction if he refuses or fails to do so since if he does not , no one else can . |
| 12 | Although one suspects that the extreme rural and intermediate rural areas would be reduced in area if the same exercise were repeated for the 1981 census ( unfortunately it has n't and anyway would be difficult to do so since local authority boundaries have changed since 1971 ) , the analysis did allow Cloke ( 1978 ) to compare degrees of rurality between 1961 and 1971 , and to produce a three-fold typology of rural areas that were becoming increasingly non-rural , were static or becoming increasingly rural , and to produce maps of these three types for each of the four rural areas shown in Figure 5.5 . |
| 13 | The Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal visited Iran on June 5-6 , the first senior Saudi minister to do so since the resumption of diplomatic relations in March [ see pp. 38119 ; 38166 ] . |
| 14 | These purchase notice provisions are restricted to owner occupiers of houses and small businesses who can show that they have made reasonable attempts to sell their property but have found it impossible to do so except at a substantially depreciated price because of certain defined planning actions . |
| 15 | Like his [ sic ] colleagues in most developing countries , he is , to say the least , unprepared and unwilling to serve in rural areas and has to be forced to do so although he is fully aware that rural areas and people are most undeveloped and disadvantaged because of lack of human , material and financial resources .... |
| 16 | It is the failure to do so that often makes such programmes both unrealistic and ineffective to participants both during and certainly after the event . |
| 17 | Which you 'll remember you were told to do so that there 's a space For your name . |
| 18 | After a long day 's hearing , such as obviously took place here , that might be the sensible thing to do so that the court is not producing these important findings and reasons under pressure . |
| 19 | Be prepared to tell the boat to windward that this is what you intend to do so that he does nor barge down onto you and force you further along the line . |
| 20 | It is to be hoped that future research into the nature of language processing will continue to relate findings about the performance of both skilled and impaired language users on the wide range of tasks which go together to make up out ability to acquire and use language — for it is only by attempting to do so that it will ultimately be possible for psychologists to develop a comprehensive model of language processing . |
| 21 | Did you know he gave up what he wanted to do so that you could have material comforts ? ’ |
| 22 | Try to space out any jobs you have to do so that you can alternate resting times with activity . |
| 23 | well I could do that first I think before I do anything else so that 'll mean I 've got to do so that if the long is clean |
| 24 | Just as soon as it is safe to do so but not before . |
| 25 | Also offering advice if we felt qualified to do so but referring to the relevant health services or back to her if not . |
| 26 | And then I thought I would write and suggest that she should suggest herself to tea one day and not only did she have the effrontery to do so but she brought her husband . |
| 27 | Companies are under no obligation to do so but , for those people lucky enough to work for an organisation willing to amend its pension scheme rules accordingly , this new provision could make an immense difference to the financial position of early retirees . |
| 28 | Oswald , carrying Goneril 's letter , and with the added instructions to kill Gloucester should he find him , tried to do so but was killed by Edgar , who discovered their secret plans to kill Albany ( King Lear , IV.vi.227–80 ) . |
| 29 | The war did not prove particularly popular with the English nobility , who served when called upon to do so but gained little from it . |
| 30 | It took him a considerable time to do so but he succeeded and left a deep mark on Korea only equalled or exceeded by his arch-rival , Kim Il Sung in north Korea . |